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While people from the mainstream literary and media culture often find my ideas weird, 'too much,' or somehow 'out there,' for me, my entire project has been fundamentally and quite strictly logical.

When I had my spiritual crisis in my late twenties, I confronted something that I had always felt lurking in the background of my consciousness: The nihilism of contemporary culture, which values material gain while denying any possibility of the existence of the soul. This denial is based on the very recent development of science in the last few centuries ­ we can see its contemporary expression in writers like Richard Dawkins and David Dennett. It is almost as if secular 'scientific' materialists take a cold comfort in their certainty that there can be no such thing as 'God' or an afterlife, that human existence is the result of random conditions and genetic mutations over time.

Just because a few centuries of science appears to support this claim does not make it true. Many concepts and theories have been accepted by people for hundreds or thousands of years that eventually turned out to be false.
The question we might want to ask ourselves is how can we demonstrate the validity or invalidity of this claim of materialist meaninglessness for ourselves?